Handmade sea crafts - a selection of interesting ideas and master classes with photo examples

Do you want your memories of summer to warm you in winter evenings and in cold, gloomy autumn days? Then perhaps you should make something interesting from the brought material, when you were on vacation at the sea. These can be intricately shaped seashells, pebbles, starfish. And on colored paper you can revive the summer pictures: the sea, the beach, the flight of seagulls over the ships and the sound of a joyful surf.

But before you create, you need to prepare the raw materials for the work.

Getting Ready to Work

If the shells are brought by you, it is necessary to wash them from the smell and residues of shellfish. You can treat them with water and chlorine-containing preparations by putting them into the solution for an hour, remove the rest of the dirt with a small brush. If the shells contain a lot of extra stuff, you need to boil for about five minutes, let stand and remove the debris with a stick or tweezers. Then you need to dry them well.
The surface can be uneven, but with the help of improvised means it is easy to remove the imperfections and make them invisible, using spray nail polish or nail polish with or without glitter. Very chic will look products where the shells are covered with a pearlescent pinkish or white shade. It is necessary to glue the shells with Moment or Titan glue, they will give water resistance and durability.

Making crafts for the interior

Shells in their original form can be used for decorating baskets, frames, vases, candles, cachepots.
By coating them with lacquer, you can also take them to decorate the home interior, but you can also make exclusive souvenirs that will dramatically change the ambiance of the house. After coating, you can sprinkle with glitter, which will look great.
- A large seashell can replace a vase on the coffee table, a glass in the bathroom for toothbrushes, a candle, if you pour wax in it and install a wick.
- Shells are perfectly combined with natural materials - wood, twine, leaves, sand. With the skillful and harmonious combination can be constructed panel on the wall, collage or original candlestick.
It is not very difficult to attach shells by drilling holes on a solid fishing line and make curtains for the door or window. To the chandelier in the bedroom, you can hang dream music constructed from a wooden stick, with strong strings with shell decorations tied to it. It can be decorated with ceramic paint, gouache, or decoupage techniques.
In recent years, there has been a great demand for topiaries, which serve as wonderful decorations for homes. They are not so difficult to make, using the information on the Internet.

Here's how you can design a seashell tree, applying a little imagination.

You need: a flat stick about 50 cm long, putty, water, twine, dishes for the base - 8 cm high, a ball made in the way of papier-mache with a diameter of about 10 cm, glue Moment, scissors, a knife and small seashell material.

Make a thick sour cream of putty and water, pour the solution into the bowl for the base and place a stick in the middle, wrapped with string, hide the edge of the string in the solution and let it harden. Drill a small hole in the ball and put it on a stick to hold it firmly. Lubricate the ball with glue, and glue the shells. Then you can coat the ball with spray varnish, matching the color of the ball to the interior. It should be done outside or in a well-ventilated room to avoid poisoning by the smell.

You can make a very interesting souvenir with your own hands, which is called a floating cup. The product is popular and original in appearance.

Creation of decorations

Seashells serve to make jewelry for fashionistas and resemble real jewels.

Seashells are attached with glue to the hairpins serving to create hairstyles.
If you carefully drill holes in the shells with a screwdriver or drill bit, attaching them with masking tape to a wooden surface, you can make a chic earrings, necklaces, pendants, not inferior costume jewelry. No such tools, use a sharp awl, needle. But it is necessary to observe the technique of safety. Then cover the surface of the product with a glossy varnish. Accessories for the items should be purchased in the store.
Seashells will look very good on the Christmas tree. While, again, a copy of the forest tree can be made from chips, painted greenish color, and decorated with a starfish on top.
To make a snowflake on an ordinary Christmas tree, the master makes a cross-cut on the machine, and then from such ornate plates glued snowflake. From such parts you can also make earrings, jewelry for weddings or other celebrations.
From pine or spruce make a wreath for the New Year, and decorate it quite real shell material, decorated with pebbles or whole strips of such rhinestones.
Glued small shiny pebbles give the products a rich look. Of course, the work is laborious, requiring patience, because every rhinestone, holding tweezers in your hand, you need to lay out on the surface and attach. Therefore, the decoration of bracelets, pendants is very valuable. Making such costume jewelry is in demand and is a good idea for business.

Ideas for creating masterpieces for children of different ages

Together with adults, a child can make sea creatures, ships, boats, and mythical characters from fairy tales and legends that live in the water. This fascinating activity with a maritime theme can remind you of hot days and grow into a real hobby.

You can make ordinary applications from paper, cutting out fish, crabs, ships, seagulls with scissors and gluing them to the paper. This is work for kids 3 - 4 years old.
For younger children the work can be more complicated:
- Volumetric octopuses with tentacles made like a Christmas tree garland.
- Seahorses and jellyfish can also be volumetric, like Christmas lanterns, or made in the form of an accordion. They can be hung on the Christmas tree or just play with them.
- Fish are made in the origami technique. Attach the head, fins, tail. A piece of blue paper (sea) is glued to a sheet of white cardboard, curly waves with volume on top. Fish, jellyfish and other inhabitants of the underwater world are attached, and seaweed decorates the work.
Children of middle school age sometimes make very funny handicrafts from plastic disposable dishes, thin foam plastic: seahorses, sharks, octopuses, mermaids. Then the whole panoramas of the sea underwater life are born from it.
From shells, flat pebbles you can make funny animals and birds that will delight children and arouse interest in creativity on the water theme.